Translation
mobile phone, mobile
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Word origin
A compound of poŝo ('pocket', from French poche) and telefono, itself Greek tele ('far') plus phone ('sound'). Esperanto names the thing the way German does with Handy's rival Taschentelefon: the telephone you keep in a pocket.
- Origin
- Esperanto compound, on French and Greek roots
- Root
- poŝo + telefono
- English cognates
- telephone, pocket
Examples
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My mobile phone is in my jacket pocket.
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She sent a message on her mobile phone.
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Do not use your mobile phone during the lesson.
Compound nouns in Esperanto are simply glued together, the last element carrying the ending: plus gives a pocket telephone. Split it and you can read it cold, which is the whole point of the system. Poŝhorloĝo and poŝlampo are built the same way. In speech people often drop to plain , exactly as English drops to "phone".
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Start your free weekThis word is taught in chapter 16, lesson 7: poŝtelefono, rikolti, sugesti and 7 more words.